ny const art 1 sec 3 does not apply in the state of new york
Pope 'Deeply Pained' Over Turkey's Move on Hagia Sophia
NY PML Sec 109 is:1 unconstiutional, see NY Const Art 1 Sec 32 does not apply to Nassau OTB. when you walk into nassau otb to bet an out of state track, you are betting in NY, but the race is outside NY. The statute does not apply.3 is vague, indefinite, and or overly broad. note I work with two members of the Orthodox Curch as well as many Roman Catholics, and several others.Nassau OTB sells and cashes NY Lottery tickets. The NY State Lottery operates e ery day of the year.Perhaps you know an attorney or others with an interest in such things?I do not know if there may be an attorneys fee statute that would cover such a case.The case has excellent publicity potential. A favorite California track of NY bettors has run on Roman Catholic Easter Sunday. Th case is meritorious.See NY daily News Article below addressing a statute prior to NY PML Sec 109. NYC OTB went bankrupt about ten years ago.Sincerely yours,
Track Code Track Name Entry Scratch 1st Post
ET1st Post
LocalTime
ZoneStakes Race(s) Stakes Grade T.V.
IndicatorSA SANTA ANITA PARK 72 48 3:00 PM 12:00 PM PDT SUN SUNLAND PARK 168 24 2:30 PM 12:30 PM MDT Mt. Cristo Rey H. TAM TAMPA BAY DOWNS 72 0 12:35 PM 
https://www.nydailynews.com/archives/sports/open-1st-palm-sunday-otb-rakes-2m-article-1.659016
New York City Off-Track Betting made history yesterday, taking bets on Palm Sunday. Since 1973, when Sunday racing was made legal in New York State, race tracks have been allowed to operate every Sunday except for Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday. While Aqueduct kept its doors shut, NYCOTB had its betting parlors open despite a letter from the New York State Racing and Wagering Board stating that it couldn't do so. "We're not a race track," NYCOTB president Ray Casey said. "OTB's business is a simulcasting business." Bettors responded by wagering an estimated $2 million yesterday on tracks from around the country, including Keeneland in Kentucky and Gulfstream Park in Florida. While in the past NYCOTB has respected the law and shut down on Palm Sunday, it took a chance this time because its business is
down. "With the weather being the way it's been our handle has been off significantly," Casey said. "Our lawyers felt from their point of view that we could open (yesterday)." The law says race tracks can't open. It doesn't mention OTBs. "I respect the
Racing and Wagering Board and I have the utmost respect for chairman Michael Hoblock but I felt we're right on this one," Casey said. The NYSRWB didn't return phone calls yesterday but said on Saturday it would meet this week to discuss fines and penalties it can impose on NYCOTB. "This isn't personal," Casey said. "I just didn't agree with the board's interpretation." Casey also said NYCOTB may open on Easter Sunday.Thanks for the help. The item’s below. I’d be happy to mail you a copy, if you give me a mailing address.Claude SolnikLong Island Business News2150 Smithtown Ave.Ronkonkoma, NY 11779-7348Home > LI Confidential > Stop scratching on holidaysStop scratching on holidays
Published: June 1, 2012
Off Track Betting in New York State has been racing into a crisis called shrinking revenue. Some people have spitballed a solution: Don’t close on holidays.
New York State Racing Law bars racing on Christmas, Easter and Palm Sunday, and the state has ruled OTBs can’t handle action on those days, even though they could easily broadcast races from out of state.
“You should be able to bet whenever you want,” said Jackson Leeds, a Nassau OTB employee who makes an occasional bet. He added some irrefutable logic: “How is the business going to make money if you’re not open to take people’s bets?”
Elias Tsekerides, president of the Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York, said OTB is open on Greek Orthodox Easter and Palm Sunday.
“I don’t want discrimination,” Tsekerides said. “They close for the Catholics, but open for the Greek Orthodox? It’s either open for all or not open.”
OTB officials have said they lose millions by closing on Palm Sunday alone, with tracks such as Gulfstream, Santa Anita, Turf Paradise and Hawthorne running.
One option: OTBs could just stay open and face the consequences. New York City OTB did just that back in 2003. The handle was about $1.5 million – and OTB was fined $5,000.
Easy money.
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VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis said on Sunday that he is “deeply pained” over the decision by Turkey to change the status of Hagia Sophia — which was originally built in Istanbul as a Christian cathedral — from a museum to a mosque.
In a very brief, improvised remark, Francis, speaking from his studio window overlooking St. Peter’s Square, noted that the Catholic Church marked Sunday as International Day of the Sea. “And the sea brings me a little far away with my thought: to Istanbul,” the pontiff said. "I am thinking of St. Sophia and I am deeply pained.”
Francis said no more but was clearly referring to the move by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to formally convert the monumental building back into a mosque. The colossal Santa Sophia cathedral was turned into a mosque after the Ottomans conquered the city in 1453. The Turkish secular government in 1934 decided to make it a museum.
The pope, who heads the Roman Catholic church, is adding his voice to strong objections a day earlier by the head of the Geneva-based World Council of Churches. That organization described its “grief and dismay” in noting that Hagia Sophia has been “a place of openness, encounter and inspiration for people from all nations.” The council's membership comprises Protestant, Orthodox and Anglican churches.
Erdogan declared the monument open for Muslim worship after a high court annulled the 1934 government decision.
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